Relational Database Job Trends in Berkshire

Relational Database
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 74 112
Rank change year-on-year -15 +38 +23
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 23 42 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.90% 2.64% 1.68%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 11.44% 12.00% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 23
10th Percentile £37,375 - -
25th Percentile £39,063 £37,250 £56,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £37,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -50.00% +27.66%
75th Percentile £68,750 £50,516 £91,250
90th Percentile £77,750 £60,283 £96,250
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,565 £55,000
% change year-on-year -1.02% +1.03% -4.35%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

Relational Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 201 350 451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 7.85% 22.04% 15.75%
Number of salaries quoted 132 162 320
10th Percentile £42,750 £45,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% -3.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile - £94,500 £95,000
South East median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +4.55% -3.51%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Relational Database relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Relational Database
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Relational Database in Berkshire over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Relational Database in Berkshire

Relational Database
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 15 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -25 23 £51,250 -7.77% 2
Relational Database
South East

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (34.78%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.35%) JBoss
2 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (86.96%) AWS
2 18 (78.26%) Amazon ECS
2 18 (78.26%) Amazon EKS
2 18 (78.26%) Serverless
3 7 (30.43%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (30.43%) Amazon S3
3 7 (30.43%) Amazon SQS
4 5 (21.74%) Azure
5 2 (8.70%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (8.70%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (4.35%) Collibra
6 1 (4.35%) dbt
6 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (73.91%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (21.74%) RDBMS
3 2 (8.70%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.35%) Looker
4 1 (4.35%) Metadata
4 1 (4.35%) Power BI
4 1 (4.35%) Power Query
4 1 (4.35%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (78.26%) Jenkins
2 13 (56.52%) Git
3 9 (39.13%) JUnit
4 7 (30.43%) JMeter
4 7 (30.43%) Mockito
General
1 11 (47.83%) Public Sector
2 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Developer
2 14 (60.87%) Java Developer
3 7 (30.43%) Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (26.09%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 5 (21.74%) Java Engineer
5 5 (21.74%) Support Engineer
6 3 (13.04%) Backend Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
7 2 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Analyst
8 1 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 1 (4.35%) Data Analyst
8 1 (4.35%) Data Quality Officer
8 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (82.61%) Spring
2 18 (78.26%) Spring Boot
3 16 (69.57%) REST
4 15 (65.22%) Web Services
5 11 (47.83%) Elastic Stack
5 11 (47.83%) React
6 10 (43.48%) Mustache
7 9 (39.13%) Node.js
8 8 (34.78%) Apache Camel
8 8 (34.78%) Hibernate
9 7 (30.43%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (30.43%) HTML
9 7 (30.43%) jQuery
9 7 (30.43%) Kafka
9 7 (30.43%) WireMock
10 5 (21.74%) JPA
10 5 (21.74%) JSON
10 5 (21.74%) RESTful
10 5 (21.74%) XML
11 4 (17.39%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 16 (69.57%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (26.09%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
3 2 (8.70%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (86.96%) Agile
2 19 (82.61%) CI/CD
3 18 (78.26%) Microservices
3 18 (78.26%) TDD
4 13 (56.52%) Scrum
5 12 (52.17%) SDLC
6 10 (43.48%) BDD
7 8 (34.78%) Full-Stack Development
8 7 (30.43%) DevOps
8 7 (30.43%) Workflow
9 6 (26.09%) Kanban
10 5 (21.74%) Biometrics
10 5 (21.74%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (21.74%) Process Management
11 4 (17.39%) Containerisation
12 3 (13.04%) Clean Code
12 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
12 3 (13.04%) Design Patterns
12 3 (13.04%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 3 (13.04%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 19 (82.61%) Java
2 15 (65.22%) JavaScript
3 8 (34.78%) Python
4 7 (30.43%) Shell Script
5 6 (26.09%) SQL
6 3 (13.04%) PL/SQL
7 1 (4.35%) R
7 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Degree
3 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) Data Quality
2 2 (8.70%) GDPR
2 2 (8.70%) QA
3 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 19 (82.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (78.26%) Kubernetes
2 10 (43.48%) Kibana
3 4 (17.39%) Ansible
4 3 (13.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Dynatrace
1 7 (30.43%) Splunk
2 3 (13.04%) AppDynamics
2 3 (13.04%) IBM
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) Informatica
4 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.35%) Talend